IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON JOB SECURITY AND LABOUR TURNOVER OF PRIVATE SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS IN LAGOS STATE, NIGERIA
Keywords:
COVID-19, Pandemic, School Closure, Job security, Labour Turnover, Lagos StateAbstract
The quality of any educational system depends greatly on the quality of
its teachers. However, where jobs are threatened and teachers are
uncertain of the future, then, this becomes worrisome. The present
pandemic (coronavirus) that is rampaging has become a threat to
human existence and most especially to the livelihood of private school
teachers. The paper assessed the impact of covid-19 on job security and
labour turnover of private school teachers in Lagos State, Nigeria. The
study was guided by three research objectives while three null
hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance,
descriptive survey research design method was adopted for the study.
The population of the study was all private secondary school teachers in
Lagos State and purposive sampling technique was used to draw the
sample size of 100 respondents from the population. A four point Likert
rating structured on-line questionnaire titled “Impact of Covid-19 on Job
Security and Labour Turnover” (ICJSLT) was employed to gather data
from the respondents. Least Square Regression test statistics was used
to test the hypotheses. Results from the findings revealed that COVID
19-Induced Schools Closure has a negative and significant impact on job
security in private secondary schools in Lagos State (t=8.129. p=0.000).
The findings also revealed that COVID-19 Pandemic has positive and
significant impact on employees’ turnover in private secondary schools
in Lagos State (t=12.530. p=0.000). Furthermore, COVID-19-Induced
social distancing was found insignificant in explaining the changes in job
security among private secondary schools’ employees in Lagos State (t=-
.473, p=0.637). The study recommended among others that private
school owners should reassure their employees of their job security
despite the pandemic, they should also endeavour to give their teachers
palliatives while government should bail out private schools in order to
cushion the negative effect of the pandemic
